A review of the events and personalities surrounding the Constitutional Convention of 1787 concluding with the debate and the final product

Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787

BOWEN, Catherine Drinker

Teen & Young Adult

Little,Brown & Co

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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin

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Biography: The Craft and the Calling

Little,Brown

John Adams and the Revolution, 1950 1st Edition, by Catherine Bowen. Hardcover with 699 pages, published by Little, Brown &amp; Company.

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Little. Brown and Company

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Bowen was the youngest of six children. This book is about her family. The book opens quietly, then rises in an ascending spiral of revelation.

Family Portrait.

A classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dramatic session that produced the most enduring of political documents: the Constitution of the United States. From Catherine Drinker Bowen, noted American biographer and National Book Award winner, comes the canonical account of the Constitutional Convention recommended as "required reading for every American." Looked at straight from the records, the Federal Convention is startlingly fresh and new, and Mrs. Bowen evokes it as if the reader were actually there, mingling with the delegates, hearing their arguments, witnessing a dramatic moment in history. Here is the fascinating record of the hot, sultry summer months of debate and decision when ideas clashed and tempers flared. Here is the country as it was then, described by contemporaries, by Berkshire farmers in Massachusetts, by Patrick Henry's Kentucky allies, by French and English travelers. Here, too, are the offstage voices--Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine and John Adams from Europe. In all, fifty-five men attended; and in spite of the heat, in spite of clashing interests--the big states against the little, the slave states against the anti-slave states--in tension and anxiety that mounted week after week, they wrote out a working plan of government and put their signatures to it.

Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787

History

Americas

Back Bay Books

A charming and captivating biography of Benjamin Franklin that focuses on specific scenes in Franklin's colorful younger years. 7 cassettes.

Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin

Blackstone Pub

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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin

Biography: The Craft and the Calling

John Adams and the American Revolution

Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family

The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke : 1552-1634

Family Portrait.

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin

Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787

Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin